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 October 13
 1776:
Peter Barlow, who
invented the Barlow lens that is commonly used to increase optical magnification, was born.
1792: The cornerstone of the White House was laid. 1860: The first successful
aerial photograph in
the U.S. was taken from a balloon at 1200 feet over Boston, MA. 1916:
General Motors was incorporated. 1945:
Milton Hershey of
chocolate fame died. 1953: The first U.S. patent for a burglar alarm operated by
ultrasonic sound was issued to Samuel Bagno. 1957: Bing Crosby and Frank
Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special, "The Edsel Show."
1971: Alec Harley Reeves,
inventor of pulse coded modulation (PCM), died. 1972:
Herman A. Affel,
co-inventor of coaxial cable, died. 1983:
Ameritech
Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first U.S. cellular network in Chicago.
1985: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory observed the first
proton-antiproton
collisions. 1987: Nobel Prize winner
Walter Brattain, co-inventor of the transistor, died. 1992: The U.K. government
announced plans to close a third of its
deep coal mines.
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Note: These
historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there
is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites
do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with
hyperlinks have been verified. Many years ago,
I began commemorating the birthdays of notable people and events with
special RF Cafe logos.
Where available, I like to use images from postage stamps from the country where
the person or event occurred. Images used in the logos are often from open source
websites like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to
the source where possible.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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